So excited to finally be able to share this with you all: "Time on Earth" is my first time-lapse film in five years. But more than that, it's a personal meditation on --- and a highlight reel of --- thirty years spent on planet Earth, with footage shot over seven years in ten countries.

Many thanks to my cousin Isagani Palabyab for the incredible job on the music and sound. Check out his band Farewell Fair Weather!

As the film was shot over the course of many years, several cameras were used, primarily: Sony A7S, Sony A7RII, Panasonic GH3, GoPro Hero3+ Black Edition, Canon 5D Mark II, and Digital Harinezumi. Most of the footage, particularly time-lapse, was shot in the Philippines and Spain, with other footage shot in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Czech Republic, USA, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico.

Some images* from the time-lapse footage included in the film:

Sos Del Rey Católico, Aragón, Spain, 2015

Sabang Beach, Baler, Aurora, Philippines, 2015

Carcastillo, Navarra, Spain, 2015

Mt. Gulugod-Baboy summit, Mabini, Batangas, Philippines, 2015

Bakun, Benguet, Philippines, 2016

Here's a transcript of the voiceover:

Time.

I’ve been thinking about you lately.

How you’ve passed so quickly

like water slipping out of my hands.

When we were children time spread out before us like the horizon:

Endless, aglow with promise.

Decades on, I find myself still young,

but old enough to see that horizon

shrinking, closing in.

Seasons change, thousands of faces pass.

Helloes are easy

Goodbyes, not so.

Love comes, and then goes, where, who knows?

Loss leaves lessons

for every love, a letting go.

As tomorrows become yesterdays

and old resolutions fade

the questions come and then remain:

What does it mean?

Is any of this worth it?

Does it get any easier?

Will I ever find what I’m looking for?

What’s the point

when the Universe is so vast, and we are so small?

Do I even have a place in the grand scheme of it all?

But

here on this planet

our one special blue dot

though we’re tiny specks

on a lonely boat in a sea of stars

to know another soul is to find

that every human heart

is as deep as an ocean.

And that we are here for a moment

in the eyes of the infinity isn’t a tragedy:

It’s a miracle.

Hope you enjoy watching the film as much I did making it. Thanks for watching!